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Rutgers Brain Health Institute supports students through federally funded training grants, scholar programs, and ...

When considering the drugs most likely to cause former addicts to repeatedly relapse, opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine ...

For years, addiction was seen as a matter of personal failure—a bad habit or a lack of discipline. People believed those who struggled with substance abuse could stop if they simply wanted to. But ...

It could be fertile ground for addiction, say scientists at UB’s Research Institute on Addictions (RIA). Research scientists at RIA, founded in 1970 as a part of the New York State Division of ...

Like many who have endured childhood trauma, Shannon Hicks turned to drugs at an early age. Pregnant by 16 and a mother of two by 19, she was married and living in her first home — believing she was ...

A mouse study highlights the role of acetylcholine in behavioral flexibility, offering new insight into the brain mechanisms involved in addiction and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Smoking instead of injecting drugs can reduce harm, but a new study shows opioid smokers are four times as likely to suffer ...

The state government is proposing to scrap drug diversion laws, which provide a three strikes system before criminal charges, in a crackdown on "addiction and criminal offending".

The big thinkers at Aperture warn of the Gen Z addiction epidemic.

A decades-long study suggests that your daily caffeine fix might be doing more than jolting you through morning meetings – it ...